Passed a (small) milestone today by finishing my first book in Chinese, a translation of Saint-Exupéry’s “Le Petit Prince.” I won’t pretend that there weren’t days where I was looking up essentially every word in the dictionary. Hopefully some of them stick around!
I've only had a few milk punches but they've all been lovely. It's fascinating how the process preserves fruit juices...I was really starting to not like the thought of juicing all my citrus the night before the wedding. I'm curious to try the vegan way with coconut cream as well.
A 750 ml bottle of yellow transparent liquid sits on a white counter top. It contains my first attempt at making milk punch
My wedding’s in a few weeks, so last night I started trying to figure out what booze I can pre-batch. My first ever clarified milk punch! Lemon, spiced pear liqueur, homemade five spice amaro, rum, genmai cha. A very solid start. Next step is to try infusing the tea in vermouth rather than water.
This one is probably already on your list, but in Berlant and Stewart's "The Hundreds" there is a section of independently contributed indexes that include poetry, graphic art, para-essays, and then a traditional citation apparatus mixed w/ entries like "A shoulder twitching."
Just macerated some herbs and barks for my first DIY amaro recipe and it’s astonishing how close just smashing a few specifics in a mortar and pestle — angelica, anise, clove, licorice, cinchona — gets to the aroma of some of the classics.
I feel like the Ted Greene V system is finally getting me to learn all the chord inversion I wish I had learned years ago.
I doubt it’s even remotely sustainable given the labor required just for content moderation, but it is interesting that this is basically how a bunch of mastodon servers work to defray hosting costs.
@andrewweathers.bsky.social I'm just now getting to Neglibgiblism and the low-mid fuzz on "crawlth" feels like it's making direct contact to the inside of my skull. Incredible textures so far.
“Tender Buttons” completely rewired how I thought about poetry for a bit, but I’ve never delved any further.
Pen and ink drawing of a “fishman of the great mud flats”
Pen and ink drawing of a mesa and canyon with large broken towers and big bone in the ground.
Pen and in drawing of flying manta rays w/ boxes on their backs and broken magical tower.
Very rough gouache painting in primary colors of a desert scene, with red mesas, obelisks, giant bones, floating submarinesc etc.
Some goofy sketches I’ve been making lately for a homebrew ttrpg setting. Loosely Dark Sun inspired.
Everything seems to work now, thanks for updating me!
I’m having the same issue, iPhone 12, iOS 17.6.1, mastodon account @halfflat@assemblag.es. It doesn’t even crash, just loads the splash screen and gets stuck forever which is pretty odd behavior on iOS.
A clay sculpture of a small dwarf or gnome posing among some licquor bottles
Many frustrated attempts at correctly proportioned limbs later…
A miniature gnome or dwarf torso made from clay
Got a big block of plasticine clay from austin creative reuse for $1 and spent yesterday imagining a guy
Finally getting somewhere with this tree sonification project. Gonna slowly add field recordings to it and figure out a better demo mode eventually. https://austinsurroundsound.neocities.org
It has suddenly become clear to me that I haven’t had field peas in way too long.
Managed to understand javascript just enough to take my first steps at sonifying Austin's tree inventory via the Web Audio api. Super basic patch right now, collecting trees into geohashes and "playing" each geohash by scaling population size to pitch and envelope data.
diode.zone/w/k9ouaVbQ1D...
In the planning stages of sonifying some survey data of Austin trees. Thinking of devloping a unique score for a bunch of geohashes based on the trees in each hash, and then modulate based on the position of the listener. I didn’t realize how fun geohashes were! 14 years late to the party.
I used to use this for blocking websites a few years ago, and it was pretty powerful at the time freedom.to/downloads
Anthropomorphized sketch portrait of a chubby cat with a high collar and monocle.
The thing about sketching is that it’s incredibly humbling 99% of the time, but occasisionally something will just come out and surprise you.
I’ve been trying “openvibe” to bridge my mastodon and bluesky timelines into one app — despite the many UI paper cuts and terrible name (🙄) it does seem to at least be able to do that task to a first approximation. Hoping that one of my prefered client apps will take on the challenge at some point.
Also, a fun little experiment with styling an RSS feed so that it’s legible for humans and matches my weird website design: zarabanda.neocities.org/feed.xml
Wrote a little review of Miquel de Palol’s “Trois Pas Vers le Sud,” which I picked up in France right before I got Covid and burned through once I got back. zarabanda.neocities.org/blog#trois
Sick, super cool. I’ve been goofing around dip pens lately, just a classic g nib. It’s way beyond my skill level, but I’m starting to dig how much variation you can get. I’ll have to try out the kaweco sometime though, I see them relatively often in stores
Very cool! I’ve tried to draw (poorly) while using my medium nibbed Lammy before and it seemed way too heavy for the level of detail you achieved here, so I thought you might be using something pretty fine.
The line variation is really striking! Did you use a fine nib for this and fill in the heavier sections?
I understand that not making sense is largely the point, but at some point you just have to marvel at how completely out of step with basic reality these guys are. How long has it been since they've been outside? Forever?
I’ve been really enjoying going through some of Ted Greene’s “V System” for 4 note chord inversions and spacings on guitar. I’ve tried to study inversions systematically here and there but this is way clearer than anything I could have come up with.
www.tedgreene.com/teaching/v_s...
There's a small scene where this happens beat-for-beat in Robert Littell's CIA novel “The Company" and I always thought it was a charmingly American vision of the French
Really compelled by Korolëva's "premonitions". The way the animal voices and field recordings are tuned & bent into sometimes poignant, sometimes terrifying shapes is astounding. A very fine line that is easily overdone, but it works for me here. f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/premon...
